So, last year you did something that seemed, at the time, an innocent parental act. Months and months later, the repercussions are still reverberating throughout your house and mind.

You took your daughter to the Renaissance Festival. Oops. We could have told you that would have a lasting effect. Now, she’s totally obsessed. She’s made you cook massive turkey legs every Sunday night for months on end (and you don’t even like turkey). She sketches jousts in her notepad and she calls you “M’lady” all day long. She’s turned everything in your home and garden into a fairy wonderland (but she spells it faerie) and she got in trouble at school for writing her essay about wanting to be a jester when she grows up (“Take this assignment seriously!” her teacher wrote. The sad thing is: she had). So, RenFest is kinda harshing the groove of your modern life, huh?

The benefits of getting her this Child Renaissance Peasant Costume, then, are twofold: firstly, she will have an excellent Halloween costume that makes her most happy, as this red-and-gold dress is exactly the kind of thing a girl would have worn for festival days. But you also gain a new Renaissance management tool. One day a week, your sweetie gets to get all done up in this ensemble, headband and all, and pretend like she’s in the Renaissance. The other six days she has to be a kid, circa now. You may still have to make turkey legs on Sundays, but the rest of the week, she may even call you “Mom,” again.